adsistla (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} adsistla) wrote,@ 2008-03-27 12:31:00 |
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Misc, reading, and free e-book
1) Misc:
We've had quite a bit of bad health here (terrible flu season, huh? who hasn't had bad health?) so things on the writing/reading front slowed to a crawl then sprawled on road, but we're recovering nicely now (knocking on wood).
2) free e-book
I love free things, especially free books!
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/infecte
by scott sigler
Only available for 3 more days (until the end of march).
3)recent reads:
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
(got the e-book free from tor.com)
Great, great, great. Since I've been writing, I notice things in books that make it harder for me to fall under the spell of the story. Not the case here. Sanderson did a great job. Really nice, descriptive, evocative language. Compelling story line w/multiple arcs. I loved that his magic system had very definite limitations and drawbacks so we have powerful people but not invincible ones.
Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro:
This was lukewarm for me. She does a great job w/worldbuilding and description. Perhaps it was just a little too romance-y for me. Not that I don't like romance in stories, but I tend to like SF/F stories w/a side of romance, not romance w/a side of SF/F. That's just me though.
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
It was okay. The omniscient viewpoint just kept me a little more remote than I like for a reading experience. Yvain was the character I felt the most interest in and sympathy for as a character, but very little time was spent with her.
1) Misc:
We've had quite a bit of bad health here (terrible flu season, huh? who hasn't had bad health?) so things on the writing/reading front slowed to a crawl then sprawled on road, but we're recovering nicely now (knocking on wood).
2) free e-book
I love free things, especially free books!
http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/infecte
by scott sigler
Only available for 3 more days (until the end of march).
3)recent reads:
Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson
(got the e-book free from tor.com)
Great, great, great. Since I've been writing, I notice things in books that make it harder for me to fall under the spell of the story. Not the case here. Sanderson did a great job. Really nice, descriptive, evocative language. Compelling story line w/multiple arcs. I loved that his magic system had very definite limitations and drawbacks so we have powerful people but not invincible ones.
Quantum Rose by Catherine Asaro:
This was lukewarm for me. She does a great job w/worldbuilding and description. Perhaps it was just a little too romance-y for me. Not that I don't like romance in stories, but I tend to like SF/F stories w/a side of romance, not romance w/a side of SF/F. That's just me though.
Stardust by Neil Gaiman
It was okay. The omniscient viewpoint just kept me a little more remote than I like for a reading experience. Yvain was the character I felt the most interest in and sympathy for as a character, but very little time was spent with her.
I found it intriguing but hard to believe that she would hate Tristran and vow to oppose him at every step because he put the chain on her, yet, she let's the witch who tried to cut her heart out and killed the unicorn and others a stern look and then let her go.
Also, I did find it a bit predictable. It was obvious quite early who the stormhold heir successor would be. 
